After playing so much I decided to share these loadings tests of some emulators/old versions. Maybe these can't be the same loadings as your emulator because of my configuration, but it is interesting to know that the comparisons are quite different.
##EMU ePSXe X.Y.Z and more emulators and consoles - PS1 settings
Analyzed Runs: Any% in 42m 10s by PlayerGameSK (Obsoleto) (FDS) PlayStation 2 [USA] on 2022-06-18 https://www.speedrun.com/atle/run/y60qrd6y
All Levels in 1h 37m 28s by Baconman12 - 2nd place PlayStation Vita [EUR] on 2022-03-11 https://www.speedrun.com/atle/run/yle24e3z
100% in 1h 26m 15s by WagnerBrasil - 2nd place PlayStation [USA] ᴇᴍᴜ on 2020-05-07 https://www.speedrun.com/atle/run/yok3gk5z
##Times EMU:
- 1 second transition
- Start: play new game
- Ends: 11 Speaks
First Segment
Second Segment
##Video: The video is quite long, because I put all the versions I examined
- 1 second transition
ePSXe v1.7.0 - OK ePSXe v1.8.0 - OK ePSXe v1.9.0 - OK ePSXe v1.9.25 - OK ePSXe v2.0.0 - OK 3:06 minutes difference - all levels, all loading screens.
ePSXe v2.0.5 - OK
pSXfin v1.13 - OK 2:52 minutes difference - all levels, all loading screens.
Duckstation - OK PSXjin v2.0.2 - OK PS2 console - OK (Fast Disk Speed) PS2 console - OK PS1 console - OK ePSXe v1.0.0 - N/A (the game did not run in this version) ePSXe v1.0.1 - N/A (the game did not run in this version) ePSXe v1.2.0 - N/A (the game did not run in this version) ePSXe v1.5.0 - N/A (the game did not run in this version) ePSXe v1.5.2 - OK (bug no sounds/different sounds) ePSXe v1.6.0 - OK (bug no sounds/different sounds) Mednaffe - N/A (I couldn't run the game, because my notebook is not powerful) BizHawk - N/A (I couldn't run the game, because my notebook is not powerful)